Quotes About Excellence

You try to do your best at what you're getting paid for.

I think when dance is mediocre, it's painful. But when dance is really impressive, it destroys.

Never buy four C-plus paintings when you can buy one A.

Over the years I have been watching Pakistan when playing against them or with them in county cricket. And they have been brilliant bowlers and batsmen and great individuals.

The aim is to be the best for Pakistan across all formats.

We are trying to create a culture of excellence. To create that culture has been tough. It hasn't been there in Pakistan cricket for a while - whether that is cultural or a product of the environment, I am not sure.

Every time we play for Pakistan, we are playing to win.

It will be our effort to make Pakistan the number one team in all formats of the game.

My idea is to create something that is at par with everything that is around the world or Hollywood.

Italian design is a global excellence, on a par with food, culture, cinema, and, more generally, lifestyle.

Everybody at the Olympics are almost at level par.

We must face up to a difficult paradox: The U.S. can maintain a leading position in science only by giving up its desire to be number one.

If you rewrite a paragraph fifty times and forty-nine of them are terrible, that's fine; you only need to get it right once.

I choose to be inspired by things that have been done well in the past. So, I don't worry about being compared, because I think that does paralyze you.

For me, content is paramount, and even if I'm to do a potboiler, the content should be excellent.

What the Chinese parent is conveying to the child is not that 'you've got to get A's or else I won't like you.' On the contrary, it's, 'I believe in you so much, I know that you can be excellent.'

When you come to Paris you are at a club that has the ambition to be the best in the world, you have come to a club that wants to play in all the competitions.

My brothers went to the parish school, one of the best in the county.

What are we out at the park for, except to win?

You can't have the finest buildings if they're not in focus. They become like nice cars parked on the street.

There is always going to be competition. When you play for a top club, you're going to attract top players. It's part and parcel of football.

I rather win one championship as a key player than four championships as a part-time player.

Of course, people will be partial, but I put myself among the best in history.

I don't like to participate at anything and not finish first.